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By bdaniels Filed under Development Tools, CiviEvent, Drupal 7, Extensions

As of CiviCRM Entity 2.0-beta4 the sub module called CiviCRM Entity Price Set Field provides a Drupal field type for the Event entity type.  In this article we’ll review the features of this submodule and discuss how to configure and customize it to fit your needs.

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By jackrabbithanna Filed under Development Tools, Drupal 7, Extensions, Release announcements

CiviCRM Entity 2.0-beta7 has been released.

Pick it up now at the Drupal.org Project Page

Changes since beta6:

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By yashodhaFiled under
As you may be aware, new PCI DSS requirements state that all payment systems must disable early TLS by 2018.  As part of this requirement, PayPal, Auth.Net and Braintree are updating its services to require TLS 1.2 for all HTTPS connections along with requiring HTTP/1.1 for all connections. You need to make sure your CiviCRM is all set with this change which you could do by doing the following checks.
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By bdaniels Filed under Development Tools, CiviEvent, Drupal 7, Extensions

CiviCRM Entity is a contributed module for tightly integrating and extending CiviCRM with Drupal. This module exposes CiviCRM API entities as proper Drupal entity types. This is HUGE as it allows you to make CiviCRM data available within your favorite Drupal tools such as Rules, Views, and EntityReference. I’d like to present another advantage of Drupal entity types, and that is Drupal fields.

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By danaskallman Filed under Community, Meetups

Last year in February we started a series of CiviNYC work days. It consists of an event where we work and learn from each other for an afternoon, usually around 4 hours. Here's what it looks like.

Not too shabby!!!

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By colemanw Filed under API, Make it happen

We’ve talked about and have made some progress on APIv4. Along with a native form builder and an improved UI, a new version of CiviCRM’s API was identified as a key objective our roadmap. While it may be the least glamorous of the three, it is an increasingly important and powerful feature within CiviCRM. And it’s time for an update.

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By bgm Filed under CiviCamp

CiviCamp Montreal is a one-day event to discover CiviCRM, learn new tricks and share your experiences. The event will feature two tracks of sessions with a wide array of topics, from beginner to power-user, including a special focus on requirements for organisations North of the border, such as Canadian payment processors, event/membership taxes, tax receipts and translation.

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Your organization has a solid membership base, but you want to retain members and help it grow.  How can CiviCRM help?

The membership renewal process can be daunting, but learning how to best use CiviMember, as well as features of CiviCampaign, CiviMail and CiviReport, will make your membership outreach more targeted, streamline the on-line renewal process, and help you track your progress.

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By jamienovick Filed under Release announcements
Time flies! CiviCRM version 4.7.18 is now released!    RELEASE NOTES: Thanks to Andrew Hunt from AGH Strategies, we have release notes all put together in one place for you here.   SPECIAL THANKS:  
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By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

Firefox is at version 52, Chrome is at 55, where does the number inflation game end?

Let the countdown begin! This April, the CiviCRM core team proudly announces we're going negative! It works for politicians, why not your favorite CRM for the Civic sector?

“When they go high, we'll go low.”

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